Sunday

Rachel ended up having to work again today.

Whenever she's at work, I do have some Daddy/daughter time with the girls which is good and bad at the same time. It's good because I get one on one with them and I see firsthand the things they do, which Rachel only tells me about after the fact. It's bad because I do not possess the same level of patience as Mommy does with their less than savory antics and I get frustrated with them easily.

Linz recently has become fascinated with animals, even taken to acting like them. Today, Allie had Linz and Ry-Ry penned up underneath the kitchen table in the "bad animals" cage. She was using the chairs to pin them in, and was feeding them crackers. It's so much fun to see their imagination at work, and how a little thing like the kitchen table can occupy my girls for a few hours. It also allowed me to watch part of the Red Wings/Ducks hockey game in peace, with only the occasion "bark" or "meow" drifting into the living room. That was the cute part. Later in the day, Linz was playing quietly in the back room with a Magna-Doodle type toy. Ry decided she was being too quiet, and took it from her and ran away. I now have a screaming Linz running at me, a screaming Ry because I caught her and took the toy away. In addition I have my own personal play-by-play announcer Allie giving me the blow by blow account of the events that led up to the toy being taken. Frustrating. It ran downhill from there, culminating in finding Linz in the bathtub, fully dressed in her clean pajamas after I had already given her a bath and dried her off.

Serenity now....